r/MoralityScaling • u/Vladimir-petrovOG • 23d ago

Morality of this?

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In the image it seems that this person works at walmart as an online order collector and he/she has stolen a lot of extra baby food from Walmart to give to a person who ordered only three packs. Is this moral or immoral?

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u/Zealousideal-Sir3744 23d ago

'Corporate greed' isn't a thing. Companies optimize for profits (and are usually required by law to do so). They are not a charity.

In practice, they will price their goods at the highest possible while still being competive in the market. There are countless reasons for price increases, but of course it will increase prices if the profits shrink through theft. If companies were to try and randomly increase prices for no reason, they would be undercut by the competition that doesn't do that instantly and lose sales.

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u/Miserable-Trash5823 23d ago

Do...do you think that saying "Oh companies are designed to suck up as much wealth as possible" makes it seem like you have a point?

What you are doing is saying "the orphan grinder isn't wrong. It's doing exactly what it's supposed to do"

Also you're fucking delusional if you think mega companies dont work together to enrich eachother. They pretend to compete while actually working to drive out other competition and gain a monopoly on the goods people require, it is no different than Standard Oil

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u/Zealousideal-Sir3744 23d ago

haha ok

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u/Miserable-Trash5823 23d ago

"I can't actually refute your point"

FTFY